Bleacher Report · Aug 21, 2015
Diamondbacks Building to Be MLB's Surprise Contender in 2016
The criticism has been shot with impunity, mostly because everyone with an Internet connection has done it, and the targets have been easy to hit.
Arizona Diamondbacks chief baseball officer Tony La Russa and general manager Dave Stewart have a reputation for resisting Major League Baseball’s move into an analytics era, per USA Today's Jason Lisk. They are not entirely different from the previous regime of Kevin Towers and Kirk Gibson, and their controversial payroll-slashing trade of the organization’s 2014 first-round pick in June, followed by curious and baffling comments by Stewart in defense of the deal, led to a war cry from critics, per ESPN's David Schoenfield.